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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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Oneis, that me oncht noc eo desert a certoin truh, for not beine
able ro comprehend the certain manner of it. And Y sayihe
Came, as for example, that he ought not i0 deserrthis certuin truth;
That there are certain and necessar: canses, Wih malee cV ry
man to vill Btat he will. ch, thouch he do no yet concciv. in w’at
manner ehe villos manis cans. d. And vet J el inte the manner of
it is not very bard to conccive. sceine that ne sce dui y that
prai se dispraise revard, punistment. Soc d an devil sequels ol m ns
actiosretaine d in memory doframe andm le us tothe electionof
Whatsoever it be that ve el et. Andi a thememory es such
thines procceds from the senses and sense rom the operationoi the
objects of sense, hich are ext rnal rous. and coverne d oncly by C;od
Mlnighey. And byconsequ. nec, ullactins, cven os free and vo-
nncary Asents are necessars.
The otber chine herepeatethis, that the best vay eo reconcile
Contingency and Li eriy w eh, the presei nee and Decrees of God.
is ro subject fucure contincents torhe aspect of601. T hesame is
also my pinion. but cent ary ro whar he hach all this hile labou-
red roprove. For, tieherro he held liberry and necessity, thatis to
say, liberty ardthe decrees of C’odirreconcilable, unlessthe aspect
of Ciod rtich mord app. arech nom the first time in this discourse)
sienifir Somembat ilse besides Gods will and decrce, which Tcannot
anderstand. Bu he adds, that ve must subject them accordine to
that presentiale, which they lave in eterniey, Which le says can
not be done by them that conceive eternity to be an everlasti ns fnc-
cession, but oncly by them thar conceive ir an indivisible point. 70
this Lansiver, l’a as soon as J ean conceive Pterniey robe an indi-
visible poine, or auy thins but an everlastins suecession, lWil re-
nonnce all l have vritien in ehis, ubject. LknoW SC. ThAMAS
AGuIaS calls eternity Nunc RanS, an ever abidine nem Wwhichis
easy enor eh to say, but thos ch : fain rould. Lnever conld conceive
it. Theychat c.n, are more hapry than L. But in the m. an time
he allorveth hereb al men to be of my opinion. save onely Hl’ose
that conceive incheir minds a nunc Rans,. Which Lthinke are none.
Lund rstand as l’et le boir it can be true that 60 l is not just, but
fustice ie sels, not wise but wrisedom it self, not eternal but Eter-
nity it sels. Nor hor he concludes thence, that L. ternicy is a point
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indivisible